Have you ever tried to build a dinosaur out of canned food? How about a playground, a shark or a gigantic loonie? That’s what 19 groups did this past Monday night, spending hours building structures entirely out of canned food, as part of Canstruction.
Canstruction is an annual competition that sees teams of designers, architects and engineers donate their time and talent to build amazing canned food structures. Best of all, the food used to build these amazing structures is all donated to Daily Bread Food Bank.
Tuesday night the winners were announced in categories such as Best Meal, Best Use of Labels, Structural Ingenuity and Juror’s Favourite.
Jennifer Bain, Toronto Star food columnist and Canstruction judge, announced the winner of Best Meal.
“Everybody deserves choice. Just because you use a food bank, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have choice”, said Jennifer. The winner of this category, AECOM, used a variety of canned and non-perishable food including whole wheat spaghetti, mixed beans, chick peas, fava beans, jackfruit, lychee as well as broccoli, celery and mushroom soups.
The real winner, as Daily Bread’s Executive Director Gail Nyberg told the crowd, are the thousands of people who are going to be using food banks this summer.
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Canstruction will be on display in various spots around the TD Towers until Saturday, May 31.
You have a chance to get in on the action by helping to vote for People’s Favourite online. Canstruction Toronto has posted all the entries in a photo album on Facebook. “Like” your favourite structure and the photo with most likes by June 2 wins! Click here to check out this year’s Canstruction entries and vote for your favourite!
We still need volunteers for Sunday June 1 to help us tear down! For more information or to sign up, click here.
Canstruction raises 50,000 pounds of food for Daily Bread is a post from: Daily Bread Food Bank
Original article: Canstruction raises 50,000 pounds of food for Daily Bread.
